On Wed, 23 May 2007, James Bottomley wrote: > I'll defer to Mark on this one. However, please remember that you > can't just blindly remove GFP_DMA ... there are some cards which > require it. > > Aacraid is one example ... it has a set of cards that can only DMA > to 31 bits. For them, the GFP_DMA is necessary: The allocation in > question is a scatterlist, which must be within the device DMA mask. a question i asked a while back, and still haven't seen an answer for -- given this in include/linux/gfp.h: #define GFP_DMA __GFP_DMA is there a qualitative difference between these two macros? is there *supposed* to be? if there isn't, one would think that just one variation would be sufficient. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http://fsdev.net/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page ======================================================================== - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
